July 10th, 2008

SoundBytes 149: When Are Senators Hypocrites?

Posted in  Politics  SoundBytes podcasts 
Author: SoundBytes || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

When Are Senators Hypocrites?

Dr. Merrill Matthews of the Institute for Policy Innovation says when they condemn employers and then do the same thing.

Some Democratic politicians accuse employers of being greedy for outsourcing jobs to local contracting companies in order to cut costs.  Yet Democrats who control the U.S. Senate are doing the same thing to the Senate dining rooms.

The dining rooms, which are staffed by government employees, have been losing money—and customers—for years.  Taxpayers make up those losses.

The House of Representatives privatized its dining rooms in the ‘80s.  Now the House dining rooms are full, and the private catering company running them has given back to the government more than a million dollars in the last five years.

One Democratic senator whined that Democrats can’t “condemn the privatization of workers, and . . . privatize workers here in the Senate.”

Well, at least they shouldn’t condemn other employers, but I bet they will.

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